St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-26
The Serious Trouble Between
the Pennsylvania & Read
ing and It's Employees.
All Traffic Completely at an
End Except the Moving Of
Passenger Trains.
The Men Threaten to Extend
the Struggle to Every
Branch of the Service.
An Attempt to be Made by the
Company to Resume Work
on Tuesday.


day over $500 loaded coal cars, made up
into fifty-two trains, passed. through
Reading from the Schuylkill coal region
for Port Richmond and other points
south of this city. To-day not single
car was moved and the coal trade is prac-
tically dead. During this forenoon over
100 railrOaders, whose trains were run
on sidings north and south of this city.
passed through Reading bound for their
homes. which are mostly i'll the coal
regions. The orders to strike were re-
ceived early this morning, and as far as
the railroad crews were concerned were
promptly Obeyed. Immediately there
after General Manager Mcleod tele-
graphed orders that every engine at
tached to trains lying on sidings should
be housed and guarded, and this was
promptly done, the engines being run
to Reading, POttstOwn and other
points. The company employs
at its shops III this city
about 1900 men, but they will not go
out, as they claim that they are not in
Guided in the order of the Knights to
strike, but the leaders in this city eX-
peet such an order very soon so as to
more effectually cripple the company.
A meeting of the railroaderS' assembly
was held here to-day, and while no
definite action was taken the prevailing
sentiment was in favor of standing by the
strikers. Agents OF the Reading CON-
pany to-day actively eanvassed this
section for men to fill the places of the
strikers and enable them to resume the
movement of trains On Tuesday. Master
Workman Hawman, of this city, to-day
sent out kilograms notifying all assem-
hlipc of tha dppiSiOl tn strike
SHAMoKIN, Pa, Dec. 25.-Al coal
and freight trains on the Mahanoy and
Shamokin division of the Reading
railroad have been stopped and
the men are firm in their
determination to move no traffic. Owing
to the Christmas holidays there is little
OF no coal at the mines for shipment.
The general opinion in this region is
that the strike now in the Lehigh re-
gion and this one will be adjusted in the
course of a few weeks. The support
now being given TO the Lehigh men will
necessarily be stopped.
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Dec. 25.-Eight
freight and coal train crews abandoned
their trains between this place and Con-
shOhOcken late last night. The men
took their engines to Reading. All the
side tracks iu the vicinity Of Bridgeport
are occupied by trains from which
the locomotives have been uncoupled.
One passed up the road this afternoon
in charge of q non-uniOn crew. One
hundred men in Bridgeport are out of
employment. Local Assembly No. 9941
held meeting at that place this after
noon and received the final word from
the head officers to strike. The Bridge
port shifting engines have been in charge
of non-union men, who will remain at
their posts.
PHILADELPHIA. Dee. 2j.-'Fhe follow
ing notice was issued last night, signed
by General Manager Mcleod, of the
Reading railroad:
Work will be resumed Tuesday morning,
Dec 81, at the Port Richmond yard. En-
ployes will report for duty at that time. The
places of such as do net report will be filled
by other men. The men discharged for dis
obedience of orders in refusing 10 move the
trains to the plare of their destination viii
not be permitted to again enter the service OF
the company in any capacity.
The men declare that il they do not
gain their point they will take more ag-
gressive steps and will extend the
struggle to every branch of the service
with the single exception of United
States mail trains. Leading strikers
say: 'sWe wish to place ourselves right
before the public by letting it be
known that the striking employees
of the Reading Railroad company are
willing to arbitrate their differences
with the company, and that we are
ready to resume work at any time,
pending arbitration. Our executive
committee is ready to meet the repre-
sentatives of the company when they
notify us of their willingness to treat
with us.
An officer of the company said this
evening that the managers did not be-
lieve that the strike would extend be-
yond few assemblies in this city. He
claimed that he bad received applica-
tions for work from $50 experienced
train hands to-day, but that he had not
accepted them because he did not be
lieve their services would be required.
He declared that the claim that $4,000
men would quit the eompany,S employ
was a pure fabrication, and he stoutly
maintained that the 10000 miners would
refuse to go out with the aggrIeVed
freight handlers in this city.
PoTTsvILLE, Pa, Dec. 25.-For the
first time in many weeks not car, with
the exception of passenger trains. has
moved, and all traffic is as utterly at
an end as though the railroad tracks
were torn up. Assembly 1869, Knights
of Labor, held a special meeting late
last night and resolved to recognize and
obey the order from headquarters to join
the strike. The action of the railroad
ers for the time disposes of the dis
pute between the Coal and Iron COM
pany and the miners concerning wages.
for if the railroad strike continues it
must result in suspension of the Oper-
ationS at the mines as effectually- as
miners strike would. 1t is rumOred
that the employees of the Coal and Iron
companys extensive machine and repair
shops in this city will be called out
shortly i'm order to more effectually
cripple the company.